h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

God save us all-

Copywrite 1993 Moxy Fruvous
Canada

"We got a call to write a song about the war in the Gulf
But we shouldn't hurt anyone's feelings
So we tried, then gave up, 'cause there was no such song
But the trying was very revealing
What makes a person so poisonous righteous
That they'd think less of anyone who just disagreed?
She's just a pacifist, he's just a patriot
If I said you were crazy, would you have to fight me?

Fighters for liberty, fighters for power
Fighters for longer turns in the shower
Don't tell me I can't fight, 'cause I'll punch out your lights
And history seems to agree that I would fight you for me

So we read and we watched all the specially selected news
And we learned so much more 'bout the good guys
Won't you stand by the flag? Was the question unasked
Won't you join in and fight with the allies?
What could we say...we're only 25 years old?
With 25 sweet summers, and hot fires in the cold
This kind of life makes that violence unthinkable
We'd like to play hockey, have kids and grow old

Fighters for Texaco, fighters for power
Fighters for longer turns in the shower
Don't tell me I can't fight 'cause I'll punch out your lights
And history seems to agree that I would fight you for me
That us would fight them for we

He's just a peacenik and she's just a warhawk
That's where the beach was, that's where the sea
What could we say...we're only 25 years old?
And history seems to agree
that I would fight you for me
That us would fight them for we

Is that how it always will be?"

I heard it then, I bought the album then but whatever passes as a superior essence damn me the entire album even if in iPod instead of thrown away cassettes rings so damn true it brings great round tears to me.

To personal?
Don't care.

Damn fine song

I remember that song from the first time I heard them perform it live on CBC radio - they used to do a new topical song every week for a few months at that time - and later heard 'King of Spain' and finally caved in and bought the album. Haven't heard it in years, but the "fighters for longer turns in the shower" always got me.

Thanks, guys. Hop in the pot of melancholia.

*Reluctant to find he's stuck in the 90's again*

Sadly I was four years older than 30 when I heard it, but it still rang true:

*Soon I'll be thirty I don't want to be thirty
I've got some big plans Goodwill has some big hands
With each new computer screen the world tells me I'm more green, buy a new Game-Boy for the fun and the fashion
Just for the passion*

I'm kind of glad that my girls (20, 21 and 27) remember this album the best of all the music I introduced them to. Quite an accomplishment considering it included Blues, Jazz and Acid Rock.